Author: Jacque EmelPublisher: MDPI
ISBN: 3038429635
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "New Water Regimes" that was published in Resources
New Water Regimes
Author: Jacque EmelPublisher: MDPI
ISBN: 3038429635
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "New Water Regimes" that was published in Resources
Inequality after the 20th Century
Author: John A. BishopPublisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1785609939
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Volume 24 offers fresh theoretical and methodological insights into the key issues in the field of economic inequality.
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Author: United States. Office of War InformationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Using Social Benefits to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion
Author: Matti HeikkiläPublisher: Council of Europe
ISBN: 9789287149374
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This volume explores the nature and scope of the problem of poverty, examines the political responses to poverty (examples of different countries); and investigates the existence and use of various definitions and thresholds applied to poverty in policy making . It also examines the variations within income transfers, i.e. social benefits designed to prevent or alleviate poverty and material hardship and explores the effectiveness of benefit schemes in reducing poverty.--Publisher's description.
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Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738171613
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Public Health Bulletin
Author: Law and Employment
Author: James J. HeckmanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226322858
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
Law and Employment analyzes the effects of regulation and deregulation on Latin American labor markets and presents empirically grounded studies of the costs of regulation. Numerous labor regulations that were introduced or reformed in Latin America in the past thirty years have had important economic consequences. Nobel Prize-winning economist James J. Heckman and Carmen Pagés document the behavior of firms attempting to stay in business and be competitive while facing the high costs of complying with these labor laws. They challenge the prevailing view that labor market regulations affect only the distribution of labor incomes and have little or no impact on efficiency or the performance of labor markets. Using new micro-evidence, this volume shows that labor regulations reduce labor market turnover rates and flexibility, promote inequality, and discriminate against marginal workers. Along with in-depth studies of Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Jamaica, and Trinidad, Law and Employment provides comparative analysis of Latin American economies against a range of European countries and the United States. The book breaks new ground by quantifying not only the cost of regulation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and in the OECD, but also the broader impact of this regulation.
Vital Minimum
Author: Dana SimmonsPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022625173X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
What constitutes a need? Who gets to decide what people do or do not need? In modern France, scientists, both amateur and professional, were engaged in defining and measuring human needs. These scientists did not trust in a providential economy to distribute the fruits of labor and uphold the social order. Rather, they believed that social organization should be actively directed according to scientific principles. They grounded their study of human needs on quantifiable foundations: agricultural and physiological experiments, demographic studies, and statistics. The result was the concept of the "vital minimum"--the living wage, a measure of physical and social needs. In this book, Dana Simmons traces the history of this concept, revealing the intersections between technologies of measurement, such as calorimeters and social surveys, and technologies of wages and welfare, such as minimum wages, poor aid, and welfare programs. In looking at how we define and measure need, Vital Minimum raises profound questions about the authority of nature and the nature of inequality.
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